Chromatic Black in the Colourist Palette

WORK IN PROGRESS – UNFINISHED STATE ‘Mistletoe’ medium size oil on canvas 15 F ©adam cope Chromatic Black in the Colourist Palette Experimenting with a new mix for ‘black’. Lets call it a ‘chromatic black’ (as does Dan Smith oil paints) in the hope that it’s more colour friendly than soot (lamp black)& burnt bones…

Heightened Colour in Photography

heightened colour vs. ‘accurate’ colour The same question of heightened colour vs. ‘accurate’ colour (what ever that means) applies to photography. Just as it does in painting.. How much do you ‘bump’ the saturation up? The loss is a smooth gradient, of how one colour runs into another. We live in colour sataurated world &…

Sunset 3 Jan – Plein-Air Paintings of the Sun by Monet, Turner & Levitan

Sunset 3 Jan 2009 Oil on MDF panel 30 x 40cm (approx 12 x 16 inches). © The Artist. Painting of the winter sun hanging a in clear sky Sometimes the sun is a round ball in the sky, shining weakly, pale against a smokey sky. Other times it’s too bright to look at, blindingly…

Fauvist Barns, Heightened Colour…Vlaminck & Kandinsky

this is the second post of ‘fauvist barns’ ‘Sechoir à Tabac’ 30 x 40 cm. Oil on Panel © The Artist available  anti-fauve barns Just updating the post  ‘Sechoir à Tabac’ (it’s about the above painting) in which I chatted about ‘anti-fauve’ barns ….trying to keep a barn door rusty brownish red, rather than letting…